TY - JOUR
T1 - Solar neutrinos and the decaying neutrino hypothesis
AU - Berryman, Jeffrey M.
AU - De Gouvêa, André
AU - Hernández, Daniel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Physical Society.
PY - 2015/10/6
Y1 - 2015/10/6
N2 - We explore, mostly using data from solar neutrino experiments, the hypothesis that the neutrino mass eigenstates are unstable. We find that, by combining B8 solar neutrino data with those on Be7 and lower-energy solar neutrinos, one obtains a mostly model-independent bound on both the ν1 and ν2 lifetimes. We comment on whether a nonzero neutrino decay width can improve the compatibility of the solar neutrino data with the massive neutrino hypothesis.
AB - We explore, mostly using data from solar neutrino experiments, the hypothesis that the neutrino mass eigenstates are unstable. We find that, by combining B8 solar neutrino data with those on Be7 and lower-energy solar neutrinos, one obtains a mostly model-independent bound on both the ν1 and ν2 lifetimes. We comment on whether a nonzero neutrino decay width can improve the compatibility of the solar neutrino data with the massive neutrino hypothesis.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.073003
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.073003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84945306449
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 92
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 7
M1 - 073003
ER -